Eyewitness News is tracking crime and safety across New York City and in your neighborhood.
You can choose which crime to explore:
Homicides
Year To Date
Through October 15
Average Homicides
Year To Date
Same Period in 2021
Homicide Rate
Per 100,000 people
Last 12 months
Average Homicide Rate
Per 100,000 people
2019 to 2021
Homicides so far this year are trending
However, the murder rate over the last 12 months is
The city is averaging
One way to think about the danger: three years ago, the murder rate
was
However, during the pandemic, a person’s chance of being murdered in New York rose to almost the same likelihood of dying in a vehicle crash and is only now starting to subside.
In 2020, New Yorkers were still about eight times more likely to die
from an accident, 10 times more likely to die from COVID-19 and 20 times
more likely to die from cancer.
The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.
ABC7’s data team looked at the New York Police Department’s data by neighborhood from 2019 through October 15.
The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.
You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates. You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to that location.